45 min
Ethnic Life Stories Trail of Trees Episode 30 - Loan Nigh Ethnic Life Stories Trail of Trees
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- History
Loan Thi Vu Nigh was born in June 1948 in Sa-cat, North Vietnam. The village is right next to the Thai Binh and Hong Ha rivers, both of which served as sources of clean water for the residents. The village has lots of ponds, each with specific purposes: washing food, dishes, bathing, etc.Sa-cat is an agricultural village, and the residents raise rice, fish, poultry, and fruits and vegetables.
Nigh’s childhood memories include going to church, helping run her mother’s store and attending school with her ten brothers and five sisters. She always loved art and drew as a hobby starting at a young age.
Her father was a soldier in the South Vietnamese army fighting Communism. Nigh and her family had to flee the Communists several times. She escaped Vietnam in 1981 and lived briefly in a Malaysian refugee camp before coming to the United States in 1982 to attend college. She arrived in Springfield on a sponsorship from her older brother, who was a member of the U.S. Catholic Council.
She studied at Missouri State University and met her future husband, Boyd, her first semester at the school. They were married in September 1985 and had a son, John, four years later. While raising John, she continued her passion for art and spent day and night creating religious paintings and depicting scenes from her life in Vietnam.
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Music is Bach Cello Suite no. 3 by Colin Carr from the Free Music Archive.
Episodes are edited, recorded, mixed, and published by Diana Dudenhoeffer.
Loan Thi Vu Nigh was born in June 1948 in Sa-cat, North Vietnam. The village is right next to the Thai Binh and Hong Ha rivers, both of which served as sources of clean water for the residents. The village has lots of ponds, each with specific purposes: washing food, dishes, bathing, etc.Sa-cat is an agricultural village, and the residents raise rice, fish, poultry, and fruits and vegetables.
Nigh’s childhood memories include going to church, helping run her mother’s store and attending school with her ten brothers and five sisters. She always loved art and drew as a hobby starting at a young age.
Her father was a soldier in the South Vietnamese army fighting Communism. Nigh and her family had to flee the Communists several times. She escaped Vietnam in 1981 and lived briefly in a Malaysian refugee camp before coming to the United States in 1982 to attend college. She arrived in Springfield on a sponsorship from her older brother, who was a member of the U.S. Catholic Council.
She studied at Missouri State University and met her future husband, Boyd, her first semester at the school. They were married in September 1985 and had a son, John, four years later. While raising John, she continued her passion for art and spent day and night creating religious paintings and depicting scenes from her life in Vietnam.
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Read all of Nigh's story and the rest of the Ethnic Life Stories Project stories by clicking here.
Follow Friends of the gardens on social media! We post park events, promos, and announcements of new ELSTOT releases on our Facebook and Instagram.
Find out more about Friends of the Garden by visiting our website, friendsofthegarden.org.
Interested in supporting the 501(c)3 nonprofit that maintains and enhances the gardens and trails at the Springfield Botanical Gardens? Find out more by clicking here.
Music is Bach Cello Suite no. 3 by Colin Carr from the Free Music Archive.
Episodes are edited, recorded, mixed, and published by Diana Dudenhoeffer.
45 min